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SELF 2015 Recap
What an incredibly busy weekend! The staff and volunteers of Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) were awesome! They were very accommodating, and I haven't felt so welcome at a conference in a long time. The conference was well organized, just as we expected. Jeremy, the...
File Sharing Over the Web with ownCloud
by Ivan Voras This article is to walk the participant through the installation and the basic configuration of ownCloud, an excellent open source collaboration and file sharing application written in PHP. OwnCloud is a well-featured collaboration application whose...
iXsystems Named Safest Workplace
I am proud to say that iXsystems received the Workplace Safety Award from the Controllable Premium National Education Association (CPRNEA). You might have read my recent blog post about the recognition iXsystems received from an Intel VP for our work in the open...
PC-BSD Version 10.1.2 Now Available for the Security-Conscious Desktop User
The PC-BSD Team announced today that PC-BSD Version 10.1.2 is now available for download. This release is a revolutionary step forward for PC-BSD, due to its inclusion of a number of new security features including PersonaCrypt, Tor Mode, Stealth Mode, and Encrypted Backups.
Intel Loves iXsystems & Open Source (And You Should, Too!)
The annual North American Intel® Solutions Summit was held last week in Dallas, Texas and iXsystems was invited to attend. I attended on behalf of iXsystems and met with fellow Intel Partners from around the country. It would be impossible to share everything I had a...
DCIG Awards iXsystems TrueNAS “Excellent” Rating (in 2015-2016 Midsize Enterprise Hybrid Storage Array Buyer’s Guide)
iXsystems, an industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced its TrueNAS Z20 and TrueNAS Z30 both were named “Excellent” by industry research firm DCIG in the 2015-2016 DCIG Midsize-Enterprise Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide. This news comes only a mere few weeks after the TrueNAS Z20 was also awarded an “Excellent” rating in the Small/Midsize Enterprise (SME) Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide as well.
NodeJS and FreeBSD – Part 1
by David Carlier Nodejs is well known to allow building server applications in full javascript. In this article, we’ll see how to build nodejs from source code on FreeBSD. You will need autoconf tools, GNU make, Python, linprocfs enabled and libexecinfo installed....
LinuxFest Northwest 2015 Recap
iXsystems staff attended LinuxFest NW on behalf of the FreeBSD Project this past weekend. Bellingham Technical College was packed with nearly 2000 attendees, the largest turnout ever for this show. “For being in a town that is quiet, spread out, and full of green...
The iXsystems Experience
I don’t consider myself a salesperson. People are always shocked when they find out I’m in sales. I’m not a super extroverted person. I don’t have finely coiffured hair or wear lots of gold. Sales people generally get a bad rep. At iXsystems, our sales process is...
What’s Special About our Sales Team?
Hi, this is Matt Finney and I’m the Director of Sales. I’ve been at iXsystems for almost 8 years and I’ve seen a lot of cool technology in that time. I came here with a basic understanding of computers. I knew what RAM was. I knew what a processor was. I quickly found...
